War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
WOODROW WILSONWhat is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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We grow by our dreams.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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